Conceptual Designs of Commercial Facilities Coal-to-Methanol Plant and Methanol-to-Gasoline Plant. Annual Report for August 1, 1977--July 28, 1978.

摘要

The conceptual design of a methanol-to-gasoline commercial plant is based on available data derived from the joint DOE/Mobil project contract No. E(49-18)-1773. Mobil agreed to review Badger's effort in a consulting and advisory role. The coal-to-methanol plant is estimated to cost $3.1billion dollars (1977) and is designed to produce 415,000barrels of methanol products per scheduled day. On the assumption that the plant had been operable in 1977and based upon the parameters listed,the 1977cost for methanol fuel would be 18.8cents per gallon,equivalent to $3.00per million Btu. (ERA citation 04:044213)